How Should Clinicians Integrate Mental Health Into Epidemic Responses?

Journal: AMA journal of ethics

Volume: 22

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2021

Affiliated Institutions:  A Professor of the Practice in Global Health and in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Abstract summary 

The 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and the current outbreak that began in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo generated numerous mental health crises that remain unaddressed by global standard infectious disease protocols. This article explores how responders should integrate mental health care into standard Ebola care.

Authors & Co-authors:  Srivatsa Stewart

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Citations : 
Authors :  2
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1001/amajethics.2020.10
SSN : 2376-6980
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Colonialism
Other Terms
Study Design
Study Approach
Country of Study
Sierra leone
Publication Country
United States